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“Interviewer” Effects in Face-to-Face Surveys: A Function of Sampling, Measurement Error, or Nonresponse?

Journal of Official Statistics
Volume 29 (2013): Issue 2 (June 2013)
By: Brady T. West,  Frauke Kreuter and  Ursula Jaenichen  
Open Access
|Oct 2013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2013-0023 | Journal eISSN: 2001-7367
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Language: English
Page range: 277 - 297
Published on: Oct 3, 2013
Published by: Sciendo
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Keywords:
Interviewer variance,
nonresponse error variance,
measurement error variance,
face-to-face data collection,
multilevel modeling,
PASS study
Related subjects:
Mathematics,
Probability and statistics

© 2013 Brady T. West, Frauke Kreuter, Ursula Jaenichen, published by Sciendo
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